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Nefando
- Title
- Nefando / Mónica Ojeda ; translated by Sarah Booker.
- Author
- Ojeda, Mónica, 1988-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-1920 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Booker, Sarah
- Description
- 170 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly search for ways to transcend their abuse as children; and El Cuco Martínez, a videogame designer whose creations push beneath the substrate of the digital world. All of them are connected in different ways to Nefando, a controversial cult video game whose purpose remains a mystery. In the parallel reality of the game, players found relief from the pain of past trauma and present shame, but also a frighteningly elastic sense of self and ethics. Is Nefando a game for horror enthusiasts, a challenge to players' morals, or a poetic exercise? What happens in a virtual world that admits every taboo? Unsparing, addictive, and perverse, Nefando takes us to the darkest corners of the web, revealing the inevitable entanglement of digital and physical worlds, and of technology and horror"--
- Uniform Title
- Nefando. English
- Alternative Title
- Nefando.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Horror fiction.
- Novels.
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Includes translator's note.
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-1920
- ISBN
- 9781566896894
- 1566896894
- 9781566896900 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023014947
- OCLC
- 1374491526
- Author
- Ojeda, Mónica, 1988- author.
- Title
- Nefando / Mónica Ojeda ; translated by Sarah Booker.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First English-language edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Booker, Sarah, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ojeda, Mónica, 1988- Nefando Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023 9781566896900 (DLC) 2023014948
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-1920